Worst work PC you've had?

[Queasy]

I thought the PC I had at my first job was bad but the one I have now at my latest job sucks blue whale.

Dell PC w/Pentium II 400Mhz
128 MB Ram
8 GB HD
17" CRT
Running WinXP Pro!!!!!

This thing is slow as hell, dies when trying to run 5 or more apps, and I have to reboot it every day because it gets so overloaded. Everyone is supposed to be getting nice new PCs with 17" LCDs but they are rolling them out slowly according to department need and seniority. They don't consider QA high priority (until the night before a release) and I've only been here 4 months. Yaaaaaaargh.

 

[JohnAn2112]

Pentium 2 266Mhz
128 MB RAM
8 GB HD
15 inch CRT
Running Win 2K

 

[3chordcharlie]

two years ago:
Pmmx 233
32mb ram (and onboard video to boot)
2gig hdd


I was writing VB apps that summer and even with my smallish test data file I could start the program running and go get a coffee before it was done.

 

[Looney]

I'm on a P2 350 right now, but it's a thin client, so ALL the processing is done on the server side. So even if this was a 486, there probably wouldn't be a performance loss.

 

[OutHouse]

Micron
client something...

celery something

man that thing was SLOW. to open ANYTHING would take over a miniute if not two.

 

[Beau]

Well, by todays standards, probably a Pentium Pro 200 with 64MB RAM and a 3.2GB HDD -- but when I was using it (1997-8 ish) it was top of the line.

But if you mean just the most tedius to use, probably a Celery 400 wtih 64 MB PC100 RAM and a 4.6 GB 5200rpm HDD -- Had to use that up till two years ago.

 

[CRXican]

Pentium 4 1.50GHz
Windows XP
256 MB of RAM
15" LCD

 

[TallBill]

p75, 32 megs of ram.. running nt4. and this was only 2 years ago.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

for what i do, a ibm p4 2.8 with onboard intel extreme graphics.
512mb ram

i work with autocad / inventor so this thing is terrible. i like working at home alot better.

JB

 

[piroroadkill]

I've been at my work 2 years and I've had the same PC the whole time, I've slowly illicitly upgraded the living hell out of it.

It was originally a Compaq Evo D500, P4 1.6, 128MB RAM, 20GB HDD, 16MB nVIDIA VANTA AGP, sounds like a POS, right?

I managed to wangle 3x 256MB sticks, so it now has 768MB, I took out the floppy drive (had it hanging out the front until my boss queried it) and jammed a 40GB in the floppy slot, took the 20GB out and swapped it for a 40GB, took out the P4 1.6 and swapped it for a client's PC's CPU - a 2.66Ghz P4 (533FSB, rather than 400, so it runs at 2Ghz and comes up with an error on every boot saying the microcode is too new).

Had a POS 17" Compaq monitor, now I roll with a 21" iiyama vision master 501.

Had some POS keyboard and mouse, now I have a Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard and Logitech MX1000.

Zing.

I even had dual graphics cards at one point.

Now I've got a new PC (Dell, 2.8 Prescott, 512MB DDR3200, 80GB SATA, 17" budget TFT) but I hardly use it, it mostly sits next to my existing old compaq, since I see no compelling reason (other than the Dell's higher 3DMark) to switch over

 

[mcvickj]

A Gateway GP6-400c. Intel Celeron 400 with 128Mb of RAM and a 6Gb HD.

 

[SilentVixen]

700 mhz
512 ram
10 Gb hard drive..
Win 2000 Pro
This is to run Pro/Engineering!
WHAT A POS! Freezes when trying to regenerate and save a drawing. UGH

 

[acemcmac]

p90, 64 megs of ram running xp pro... that was this time last year

 

[JonnyBlaze]

Originally posted by: SilentVixen
700 mhz
512 ram
10 Gb hard drive..
Win 2000 Pro
This is to run Pro/Engineering!
WHAT A POS! Freezes when trying to regenerate and save a drawing. UGH

what graphics card?

and its Pro/Engineer.

JB

 

[dman]

IBM PS/2 Model (early models), 386dx(varied) or thereabouts with 8-16MB RAM; Took about 10minutes to bootup in the morning on the slower ones (OS/2). Wasn't bad once it was running though.

 

[imported_Phil]

I think it was something like a P233 with 32Mb RAM, and a poxy crappy worst-monitor-evar 14" 60Hz flickering POS monitor. God I hated that thing. Oh, and it letterbox'd 800x600.

 

[flamingelephant]

right now!
p2 400
64 mb ram
3 gig drive (dont care because huge network drives)
running NT
edit for: 14" CRT that is soo old, its all blurry in certain spots too, hard to see
there is so much network apps and virus scanning stuff running that the computer
takes 10 minutes to log into the network.
Cant leave it running because if you dont reboot everyday it will freeze
Even when just running programs normally, it will go to bluescreen for no reason

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: acemcmac
p90, 64 megs of ram running xp pro... that was this time last year

You'd think WinXP pro would boot up with a message saying, "You crazy mf? I ain't running sh!t"

 

[saxophonoia]

one of mine that i'm using now......P3 1 ghz, 256mb ram, 18.6gb hd

 

[Linflas]

A DEC Rainbow. :thumbsdown:

 

[joecool]

my current ibm laptop at work is god-awful slow ... it's a pentium 4 m 1.8ghz w/256mb of ram. aren't the p4-m's supposed to be good? must suffer from the lack of ram ...

 

[Mr N8]

Packard Bell (should explain it all right there)
200MHz Pentium
4 GB Hard Drive
blah...blah...blah

I exchanged this thing 3 times at Best Buy before I got one that lasted. They never worked right, but I just put up with it until I started learning how to work on them by myself. I'll never buy a boxed PC again, unless it's a laptop.

 

[Encryptic]

133Mhz Pentium
32 MB RAM

That was my old work computer for a couple of years until I finally got fed up with it and asked my boss for a new computer, which I've been using for the last few years. It's not a major leap forward (800Mhz Celeron with 128 MB RAM) but it runs everything I need to use without too much trouble.

 

[lozina]

My work PC sucks so bad I just use my laptop. The bosses are going to be replacing them soon thankfully...

 

[NutBucket]

My first work PC was a P166 with a 3 gig hd and 64 megs of ram running windows 95. This was in 2000. My official work PC now is a P2 333 that I maxed out with ram (384). I haven't turned that on in more then a year